Anand Jeyasekharan
Associate Consultant,Principal Associate,Facility
Department of Haematology-Oncology
National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS)
Singapore
Biography
Dr Jeyasekharan obtained his undergraduate medical degree from Christian Medical College Vellore, India in 2003. He then received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship towards a PhD in Oncology (2008) at the University of Cambridge UK (Gonville and Caius College), under the mentorship of Prof. Ashok Venkitaraman FMedSci. Following a post-doctoral fellowship in Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow (Wolfson), he joined the National University Hospital Singapore in 2010 to complete his training in Internal Medicine, and Medical Oncology (2016). He has been active in medical research at the NUHS, and holds a joint appointment at the Cancer Science Institute, where he has run a basic science laboratory since 2013. His laboratory focuses on understanding defects in DNA repair in tumours, and the development of biomarkers of these pathways for clinical use. Dr. Jeyasekharan holds multiple internal and nationally funded grants to support his research, and is also actively involved in the Clinician-Scientist Unit at the NUH, where he administers the National University Hospital Clinician-Scientist Program for Residents (NCSP-R). His clinical interest is in aggressive B-cell neoplasms, and he is a member of the NUH lymphoma team.
Research Interest
Lymphomas Targeting genomic instability in cancer
